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Download Antwon’s In Dark Denim Mixtape

Valentine's Day is an interesting release date for San Jose rapper Antwon's latest mixtape, free via Greedhead: In Dark Denim is at once an antidote to the day's lovey-dovey fare and embrace of people fucking, so… kinda makes sense. As made clear in his 2012 summer jam "Living Every Dream," Antwon is at his most appealing when he sounds (and looks) like he just stepped out of 1996. That sound is here too, thankfully, in the fantastically back-in-the-day, sunny-sidewalk rap of "It'll All Make Sense"—Grew up broke, didn't have no friends/ Later in life it'll all make sense. But Antwon is also pretty great when he's unappealing, bundled like a ketchup-stained sweatshirt in the scuzzy, bit-crushed production of San Jose's DJ Bad Slorp, Memphis' Cities Aviv and Berlin's Teams, the latter whose cut "Boomerang" is the tape's most enjoyable filthy sex cut. Commence with the freak shit: